SATA Hotplug fails

[john wendel]

On 06/19/2009 01:54 AM, John Austin wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 21:19 -0700, john wendel wrote:
>> I've got a WD external drive with an e-sata connection. Works fine if I
>> boot with it connected/powered.
>>
>> If I hot plug it, I see the following in the messages log
>>
>> Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0
>> SErr 0x4050000 action 0xe frozen
>> Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: irq_stat 0x00400040, connection
>> status changed
>> Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake
>> DevExch }
>> Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
>> Jun 18 21:09:41 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: link is slow to respond, please
>> be patient (ready=0)
>> Jun 18 21:09:45 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
>> Jun 18 21:09:45 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
>> Jun 18 21:09:46 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus
>> 123 SControl 300)
>> Jun 18 21:09:46 godzilla2 kernel: ata1.00: applying link speed limit
>> horkage to 1.5 Gbps
>> Jun 18 21:09:51 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
>> Jun 18 21:09:51 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus
>> 113 SControl 310)
>> Jun 18 21:09:52 godzilla2 kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
>> Jun 18 21:09:52 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: EH complete
>>
>> I don't get a device created in /dev.
>>
>> I'm running the lastest F11 32 bit
>>
>> Linux godzilla2 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:14:37 EDT
>> 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Any words of wisdom (other than "don't do that") ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>
> I have two F11 machines that hotplug eSATA OK
> In the back of my mind I seem to remember you have to set the BIOS to
> SATA mode AHCI
>
> I also hack PolicyKit so normal user can mount "fixed" disks
>
> nedit /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf so ja can mount disks OR Use
> Xfce/Settings/Authorisations
>
> <config
> version="0.1">
> <match
> action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*">
>      <return
> result="yes"/>
> </match>
> </config>
>
> I use pcmanfm as file manager when I'm playing with eSATA
> as all disks (USB and eSATA) are shown and can be mounted/unmounted
> Neither dolphin or thunar get it quite right yet
>
> John
>
>

Thanks for the tip. I'll save it in case hotplug ever works.

I think my problem is a bug in the ICH7 chipset Sata controller.

Regards,

John